A MOTHER-of-two was left terrified and unable to sleep after she noticed a ghostly figure in a photograph she took of her family playing in the woods.

Laura Watson was left terrified fter she noticed a ghostly figure in a photograph she took of her fa (Image: Kennedy News and Media)

Laura Watson claims the ghostly child can been seen just behind her son’s shoulder in the harrowing photograph.

Laura, from Newcastle, had been out with her family at Plessey Woods Park last weekend, when she decided to take some pictures on her phone of her daughter Charlotte Hill, 15, son Byrin Watson, nine and cousin Jack, 16.

She said: “It's very unusual and everyone is really freaked out.

“Me and my daughter couldn't even go to sleep last night because we were so scared.”